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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
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I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.
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I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
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I almost cried last night because of the lack of sleep.
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“Your lyrics are rubbish.” It was someone I was working with when I was in my early 20s. It turned out well because I then spent a long time studying and learning how to write good lyrics.
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